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Twitter Spam: Myth Or Reality? - Danny Sullivan at Daggle
Social Media News Source: http://daggle.com
Published: May 08, 2008 - 04:02 am
Story Found By: rishilakhani 1374 Days ago
Category: Social Media
Really, Twitter spam? I mean, how do you get spammed by people you voluntarily choose to follow. It’s like bitching that your Facebook "friends" are spamming you. Why did you make them friends, then.
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from ciaran 1374 Days ago #
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To be fair, I’ve followed a couple of people (after they followed me) because they looked vaguely interesting, and then been inundated with crap - one person was even just retweeting Danny’s Tweets, without referencing the fact that they were scraped.

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from liamvictor 1374 Days ago #
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I’ve had a few follow me and at first glance they look legitimate but you soon find that every nth post was an affiliate link.

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from eristoddle 1374 Days ago #
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To me, spam is anything you don’t want to receive, whether it’s monetized or not. I think sometimes you assume that someone isn’t going to spam you and then it happens. As far as Facebook goes, I never made one friend there who didn’t spam me, including my own wife. :)

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from brian 1373 Days ago #
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Yep, really.   They spam your @xxxx reply tab, which is annoying. :)

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from whojaybe 1373 Days ago #
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Well, I like the point that was made that if you are following a lot of people and don’t have many followers then you shouldn’t be considered a spammer.  When I first signed up, I followed almost every single blogger that I knew from various social sites and yes, they eventually followed me back but at one point it seemed like I was a spammer, but I’m not.

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